Bailey from TN Nursery shows jewelweed, Black-eyed Susan, pokeberry, and goldenrod, explaining how each one treats inflammation or poison oak and draws hummingbirds, monarchs, and honeybees. Native plants feed wildlife and people.
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Hey, it's Bailey with TN Nursery, and I found a big patch of wildflowers on the place, and I wanted to tell y'all about them and show y'all the hummingbirds that's lured to them. Now, them orange flowers are jewelweed, and jewelweed, the stems and leaves and flowers and all, can all be crushed up and used to treat poison oak. A lot of people do it around here, and it really does work. And there's hummingbirds fighting over these beautiful jewelweed.. And y'all know, y'all can see the Black-eyed Susans, uh, they're all up in here, and, uh, honeybees is fighting over them. And then there is some pokeberry. Pokeberry is amazing to lure in, uh, beautiful types of birds. You'll see birds like you've never seen before. And the brighter ruffled yellow flowers are called goldenrod. Now goldenrod can be used as a tea and it cleanses your body and it helps with inflammation. If you have any kind of arthritis, it's a very good medicine for arthritis. And there's just so many benefits to native plants. There's not any native plant that's out there that doesn't benefit something. Native plants benefit the world, they benefit animals, and they'll benefit us if we will use them. There's monarchs swarming down here, hummingbirds, just all kinds of stuff. And this is a wild-type garden, you know, this hasn't been really fooled with. As you can tell, it's really growed up, but it is beautiful. And look at all the little hummingbirds it attracts. And right here you can really see the pokeberry. That hummingbird is resting on the stem. Now they say pokeberry is poison, but when it first comes up, the little shoots, you can boil them 3 times and eat them, and it's called poke salad. And we do it a lot where we're from up here in Tennessee. Shop now with TN Nursery and save the wildlife and save the world one plant at a time. TNNursery.net.
